11:59 p.m.
When xemacs installs on NT, it offers to register itself as the
default editor for c, java, ... files. However, it doesn't do a
complete job. In particular, it doesn't register for the ".cxx"
".hpp" or
".hxx" extensions.
One thing even more annoying that how many extensions c++ programmers
use is when they open up in something other than emacs :-)
Suggestions -
1. the simple:
Register for those types as well. I can't imagine those are used
for anything other than c++
2. the complete:
Put up a dialog box asking for which extensions to register
emacs. Emacs, being gods own editor, is useful for so many file
types (perl, python, html, xml, batch, ...) that power users could
well like to pick and choose from a larger menu.
3. the sinister:
Run through the registry and snarf all the file types visual studio
has registered for.
--
Brady Montz
bradym(a)balestra.org
2:10 a.m.
At 03:59 PM 12/17/2001 -0800, Brady Montz wrote:
When xemacs installs on NT, it offers to register itself as the
default editor for c, java, ... files. However, it doesn't do a
complete job. In particular, it doesn't register for the ".cxx"
".hpp" or
".hxx" extensions.
Is hpp really an extension? Yuck :)
One thing even more annoying that how many extensions c++ programmers
use is when they open up in something other than emacs :-)
Suggestions -
1. the simple:
Register for those types as well. I can't imagine those are used
for anything other than c++
I will do this.
2. the complete:
Put up a dialog box asking for which extensions to register
emacs. Emacs, being gods own editor, is useful for so many file
types (perl, python, html, xml, batch, ...) that power users could
well like to pick and choose from a larger menu.
My preference would be to add registry editing capabilities to XEmacs so
that you could do this from lisp.
andy
5:19 a.m.
>>>> "Brady" == Brady Montz
<bradym(a)balestra.org> writes:
Brady> 3. the sinister:
Brady> Run through the registry and snarf all the file types
Brady> visual studio has registered for.
4. The completely sinister:
Offer "snarfing" as a "package deal" in the extension-selection
dialog.
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6:02 a.m.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:19:59 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull"
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> said:
>>>>> "Brady" == Brady Montz
<bradym(a)balestra.org> writes:
Brady> 3. the sinister:
Brady> Run through the registry and snarf all the file types
Brady> visual studio has registered for.
4. The completely sinister:
Offer "snarfing" as a "package deal" in the extension-selection
dialog.
You *know* that some bozo is going to have managed to get Visual Studio
to register quicktime movies. ;)
6:14 a.m.
On my ToDo list is registration of mailto: and other more fancy things. We
can take over the world. SteveB once had a good quote about not being
satisfied until he had to defend XEmacs' monopoly to the President or a
senate commitee or something. But he said it much better than I can remember
it ...
Someone at work has this other quote:
"Total world domination, nothing less"
andy
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Subject: Re: registering xemacs as default editor for C++ files on NT
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:19:59 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull"
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> said:
> >>>>> "Brady" == Brady Montz <bradym(a)balestra.org>
writes:
>
> Brady> 3. the sinister:
>
> Brady> Run through the registry and snarf all the file types
> Brady> visual studio has registered for.
>
> 4. The completely sinister:
> Offer "snarfing" as a "package deal" in the
extension-selection dialog.
You *know* that some bozo is going to have managed to get Visual Studio
to register quicktime movies. ;)
6:46 a.m.
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:14:41 PST, Andy Piper said:
On my ToDo list is registration of mailto: and other more fancy
things. We
can take over the world. SteveB once had a good quote about not being
satisfied until he had to defend XEmacs' monopoly to the President or a
senate commitee or something. But he said it much better than I can remember
it ...
Someone at work has this other quote:
"Total world domination, nothing less"
If you can get it to register http: and mailto:, and *not* include a
ViralBasic scripting interface, you could get rich selling it to people
tired of having to apply the Microsoft feature-removal-of-the-week patch.
http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2001-04.html
See "Undocumented Feature" and "Microsoft Security Bulletin". ;)
(obligatory Emacs reference: at least we *document* (I think - if not,
we *SHOULD* be) that people who use Emacs on externally-created files
may want to use:
(setq enable-local-variables nil)
Incidentally, the docstring for this variable includes:
The command M-x normal-mode always obeys local-variables lists
and ignores this variable.
This gave me a mild heart attack till I looked more closely at lisp/files.el
and convinced myself that if normal-mode is called from find-file, it *does*
obey enable-local-variable ;)
/Valdis (who admits he does a lot more commenting than coding... ;)
10:45 a.m.
>>>> "Valdis" == Valdis Kletnieks
<Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu> writes:
Valdis> Incidentally, the docstring for this variable includes:
Valdis> The command M-x normal-mode always obeys local-variables
Valdis> lists and ignores this variable.
Valdis> This gave me a mild heart attack
Always do mouse2 on related topics in the help buffer _before_ having
heart attacks.
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6:41 a.m.
>>>> "Valdis" == Valdis Kletnieks
<Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu> writes:
Valdis> You *know* that some bozo is going to have managed to get
Valdis> Visual Studio to register quicktime movies. ;)
Jeez, we'd better get cracking on the font-lock stuff. That sounds
like it would be pretty difficult getting the syntax highlighting
right!
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